So far have only worked with the 200gr hornady sst and the 200gr nosler accubond, both over 47gr of varget, the sst was extremly acurate but failed my bullet test miserably, blowing up. The accubond held together with a perfect mushroom and a good base behind it, but for some reason my kimber doesn't like it at all, tried h335 and 748 with same poor accuracy results. Since I hunt deer in brown bear country want a good balance of expansion/holding together. Just bought some 225 accubonds and will see today how they do. Would have preferred to stay with 200gr as like the fusion load for when hunting islands that don't have bears. Been charged twice, almost lost last one, stopped 4ft away. Extremly happy with my kimber 84m, accurate, light and very little recoil. Curious if any one else shooting a kimber has had any better results with the 200gr accubond.
Can you provide some details on you SST test? The bullet was designed for the 338 RCM so I thought it would be good for the Federal. I would love to hear more about your results before I spend too much time working up loads for it.
